• Praying for Signs• The Snapshots• Teaching• In the Gallery Room• Son• The Apple That Fills the Room• For Samuel Cyrus Ray 6/6/65• At the Washing of My Son• The Shoelaces• A Polaroid on the Porch• Calabria• In Greece• The Temple at Paestum• In the Evening• For My Son• Innocents Abroad• Statues• The Iowa Farmhouse• The Old Days• The Night Sam and Wes Stayed in Their Own Hotel Room• The Father• A Visit to Amana• Thanksgiving in Sioux City• The Visit• How to Be Loved• Ropewalk• When My Children Left for the Alps• The Witness• End of the Road• Thanks, Robert Frost• On the Photograph “Yarn Mill,” by Lewis W. Hine• Scroll• Burial• Treasuring the Snapshot• Neighbors• Mom• Not at All• In the Third Month• Ghosts• At the Opera• First Snow• Sam• A Plastic Cube• Thanksgiving 1984• The Weeping Session in Italy• Brief Song• Haiku• The Birth of Woe• Beads, Pony, Prayer• The Question• Between Alp and Sea• Regrets• The Search• In the Children’s Library• Writing• Bhopal• The Parting• And April Arrives• To Sam• Tricks of the Mind• Another Trick of the Mind• The Cypress Root• The Return• The Petrified Forest